So much for that "sure ascension"...
after getting more favor with Kysul and receiving some gifts from it, finding more kick-ass equipment, scraping together enough XP to gain another level and mastering a dire situation of being grappled by a strong creature with heaps of immunities there came
YASD!

The bane this time?: Attribute damage ( for a change )

Well, it was a series of events. Traubon was afflicted with a bit of attribute damage which seemed to be incurable, happening by a
fountain I quaffed away with a Luck score of 17, what could go wrong...
Among some harmless and potentially to mildly positive effects he received a constant confusion state (or at least until
resting for a night) which was very bad as resting was very unsafe (I forgot about that slow wannabe dwarven paladin that got talked
into my group and who must have hung out some rooms away but could have made resting safer)
and there were some acid - and grease shooting perverted things around which enjoyed adding to the annoyance of
the when-your-character-moves-to-where-you-ordered-it-to-move-it's-like-you-won-the-lottery
staggering around the damn confusion state grants you with.

Struggling to move somewhere safer to rest, I happened by a room with lots of gaping chasms to the next floor, I had Traubon turn into a
bat with the `cloak of the bat` to be able to cross these but the effect
timed out and that of course right while he was over one of them.

BLAM, floor #5 gets created and poor, confused Traubon plunged right into the next room filled with yet more hostile and
dangerous creatures one of which just happens to inflict even more attribute damage to the one he was low on already. xD

I instantly thought of Dwarf Fortress too when spotting that on Slashdot. Setting up a laboratory on the site? Anyone who's played DF can tell that yeah, it's a good idea until one day all your scientists are enjoying some plump helmets in the dining room and the magma gushes in through the corridor.

Never trust magma, ever. Even if you manage to contain it, there's bound to be one burning shoe somewhere that gets taken to a stockpile.

Not sure, but you can be toyed with like so many meatpuppet playthings and eventually slaughtered with hilarious consequences and extreme unction by a manticore like in that awesome series of flash games; further you can fight dragons, and, indeed, even choose to be one as a player race (something like ten different types).

For some good laughs I recommend scrolling down to the reviews of "Secular & Un-Christian Games." I would have never known the great communist evil lurking in Tetris:

"The ubiquity of Tetris is also because it is highly addictive. Its repetitive gameplay and use of a repetitive Russian folk tune causes players to slip into a hypnagogic state, making them receptive to the Communistic themes inherent in the game imagery..."